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October 15 Navi Pillay’s Nobel: A Threat to Genocide Law
Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize rewards a UN inquiry that accused Israel of genocide on thin evidence, and a bid to lower the legal bar for genocidal intent. By Normal J.W. Goda

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23 min
October 12 Why the Catholic Church Is AI Doom’s Most Formidable Foe
Claire Lehmann argues that Anthropic’s approach to AI reflects an ideological movement shaped by effective altruism, whose adherents see themselves as saving humanity from existential catastrophe. Drawing parallels with historical apocalyptic religious movements, she warns that the conviction of possessing a unique moral mission can lead AI developers to neglect present-day human welfare and justify dangerous decisions in the name of humanity’s future.

Originally published in The Dispatch: https://thedispatch.com/article/catholic-church-artificial-intelligence-millenarian/

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14 min
October 09 Archbishop of Canterbury Award Row and Interfaith Naivety
The Archbishop of Canterbury's award to a cleric who praised bin Laden was no one-off. Hardeep Singh on the Church of England's naive interfaith politics.

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12 min
September 30 Last Ditch Bar's Mask Row Is Nothing New
The Last Ditch bar mask row is nothing new. Julie Bindel recalls 1980s lesbian feminism, when disability and illness became badges of authenticity and status.

https://quillette.com/2026/09/28/lesbian-fragility-then-and-now/

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18 min
September 10 Billy Bunter and the Feud George Orwell Lost
George Orwell attacked the Billy Bunter stories as snobbish propaganda. Their creator, Frank Richards, wrote back and won one of the few fights Orwell lost.
Written by David Cohen, read by William Lang.
https://quillette.com/2026/08/08/billy-bunter-and-the-man-from-animal-farm-charles-hamilton-george-orwell/

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26 min
August 19 What an Eighth Grader Taught Me About Status
Bio-cultural anthropologist, Robert Lynch, shares how an eighth grader's prank on a 510-million-year-old fossil changed his view on status and self-worth.

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15 min
July 30 What 7 October Taught Me About Decolonisation: Maarten Boudry
A philosopher explains how 7 October exposed decolonisation as a dangerous, Manichaean ideology — not harmless academic theory.

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11 min
July 28 Inside Australia’s Black Market Tobacco Crisis
Australia’s war on tobacco created a $5.6B black market and a surge in gang violence.

Written by Andrew Bushnell.

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29 min
July 20 I Chaired Canada's Human Rights Tribunal. Here's What I Saw.
During my time chairing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I sometimes felt like the agent of a state-funded extortion ring, writes David Thomas.

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22 min
July 12 The Menace of a Respectable Hatred
What remains of a person, an institution, or a civilisation that dishonours itself when Jews and Israel become the targets of hatred and violence?
By Yuki Zeman

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31 min